Thursday, 19 June 2008

Hot songs about cold beer

NOT PC beer writer Neil Miller talked to Radio NZ's Jim Mora recently about beer tours, beer songs and other things beer. He did well (audio here) but disgracefully, the best he could come up with in the way of great beer songs was Th' Dudes' 'Bliss.' Uuugh.

I figure between us you and I can do a lot better than that so the poor chap is better equipped next time he's put on the spot. Here's a list to start with:

What's yours? (Remember, "a lot better than that " excludes anything sung by anybody wearing a stetson hat, meaning this is out -- and probably excludes songs you sing after a bucket load of beer. Probably.)

Given you have an international audience PC, I should mention a song called, well .. Beer ..(or cerveza in Spanish) by Latin music superstar Elvis Crespo. The style of music is Merengue which you hear all over Latin America. Oh the memories...Julian

I must concede the question caught me off guard. On reflection, I would have gone with Wasn't that a Party by the Irish Rovers.

"Could have been the whiskyMight have been the ginCould have the three or four six packs I don't knowBut look at the mess I'm in My head feels like a footballI think I'm going to dieMe o me o myWasn't that a party!"

I do like the fact that this was the bit of the Panel you picked up on rather than my erudite comments on petrol prices which I sourced from... Not PC.

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